The eponymous Lola is a narcissistic New Yorker (Greta Gerwig) ditched by her fiance shortly before their wedding at the age of 29. She's writing a PhD dissertation on the role of silence in 19th-century French poetry (which sounds interesting), and spends the next year pursuing her interest in astrology, yoga, hypnotherapy, as she receives mostly bad advice from her friends and parents. Mum (Debra Winger) advocates freezing her eggs, Dad (Bill Pullman) suggests letting go a little, the way he did in the swinging 60s. Meanwhile she has a little sex, usually by accident, and drinks a lot. The producer, Michael London, has been associated with some rather good films, but this is not one of them